Art as Science Lesson

But who said art should be an escape, a comfort, a barbiturate? Art’s tougher and mightier than that — and for some of the greatest painters of the past, the stuff of art resided in the gory mess of real life.

NY Times, Taking Lessons From a Bloody Masterpiece

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